Table 1.

Information for the nine GEO datasets included in the current study.

Dataset	Reference	Platform	Number of samples (Tumor/Control)
GSE19826	Wang et al., 2012	[HG-U133_Plus_2] Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array	27 (12/15)
GSE27342	Cui et al., 2011a,b	[HuEx-1_0-st] Affymetrix Human Exon 1.0 ST Array [transcript (gene) version]	160 (80/80)
GSE29272	Wang et al., 2013; Li et al., 2014	[HG-U133A] Affymetrix Human Genome U133A Array	268 (134/134)
GSE33335	Cheng et al., 2012a,b, 2013	[HuEx-1_0-st] Affymetrix Human Exon 1.0 ST Array [transcript (gene) version]	50 (25/25)
GSE54129	Sun C. et al., 2017	[HG-U133_Plus_2] Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array	132 (111/21)
GSE56807	Wang et al., 2014	[HuEx-1_0-st] Affymetrix Human Exon 1.0 ST Array [transcript (gene) version]	10 (5/5)
GSE63089	Zhang et al., 2015	[HuEx-1_0-st] Affymetrix Human Exon 1.0 ST Array [transcript (gene) version]	90 (45/45)
GSE65801	Li H. et al., 2015	Agilent-028004 SurePrint G3 Human GE 8x60K Microarray (Probe Name Version)	64 (32/32)
GSE79973	He et al., 2016	[HG-U133_Plus_2] Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array	20 (10/10)